Berlin Film Festival-winning, Romanian black comedy starring Luminita Gheorghiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) as the tyrannical mother of...
Berlin Film Festival-winning, Romanian black comedy starring Luminita Gheorghiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) as the tyrannical mother of a 32-year-old man responsible for a car crash that killed a young boy. In a show of monstrous motherly love, and refusing to believe he's a grown adult capable of independence, she takes this grim opportunity to seize control over her son's life.
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92 %84 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
76 %1,913 reviewsAudience score rating
"Sharp, multilayered dialogue and expectedly canny performances are strong enough to overcome the over-active, judgmental lensing."
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Variety
Variety"The restlessness of the camerawork may drive you to distraction..."
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Total Film
Total Film"A complex final scene — in which everyone finally lets the tears flow — only deepens the sense that well-meaning mother love can be as poisonous as it is nourishing."
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Time Out
Time Out"Another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Gheorghiu finds the perfect pitch between a mother’s love for her child and a kind of pathology."
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The Dissolve
The Dissolve"Dissects the moral bankruptcy of well-off Romanian society... it shows a deeply flawed mother-son relationship that claims to be about unconditional love but is about control and fear."
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald"Another powerfully observed Romanian drama."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineChild's Pose | Details
Award winner- Golden Berlin Bear and FIPRESCI Prize winner at Berlin Film Festival 2013.
- Runtime
- 112
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Romania
